B. lanuginòsa.
1. Bumèlia lanuginòsa, Pers. (Woolly-leaved Buckthorn.) Leaves oblong-obovate, obtuse, entire, smooth above and rusty-woolly beneath, but not silky; spiny, with downy branchlets. Clusters 6- to 12-flowered, pubescent; flowers greenish-yellow. Fruit globular and quite large (½ in.), black, edible. A small tree, 10 to 40 ft. high, of the woods of southern Illinois and southward. With slight protection it can be cultivated in Massachusetts.
B. lycioìdes.
2. Bumèlia lycioìdes, Pers. (Southern Buckthorn.) Leaves 2 to 4 in. long, oval-lanceolate, usually bluntish with a tapering base and entire margin, deciduous, a little silky beneath when young. Clusters densely many-flowered (20 to 30); flowers small (1/6 in.), smooth, greenish-white. May, June. A spiny shrub or tree, 10 to 25 ft. high, in moist ground, Virginia, west and south. About as hardy as the preceding species.
Order XXVII. EBENÀCEÆ. (Ebony Family.)
A small order of mostly tropical trees and shrubs.
Genus 55. DIOSPỲROS.
Trees or shrubs with alternate, simple, entire, feather-veined leaves. Flowers small, inconspicuous, mostly diœcious. Fruit a globose berry with the 5-lobed thick calyx at the base, and with 8 to 12, occasionally 1 to 5, rather large seeds; ripe after frost.
